Prime Minister Hun sen is set for a monthly salary hike of more than $900 as part of sweeping changes to senior government and high-ranking civil servant bonuses, according to a new sub-decree. The document, dated October 13 and obtained by the Post yesterday, states that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen defended the government’s plan for strung Treng province’s 400-megawatt Lower sesan 2 dam project in a letter to an sRP lawmaker, and accused opposition parties, NGOs and the media of exaggerating the negative impacts of hydropower dams. In the six-page letter ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 1.3 million International visitors arrived in Cambodia in semester one in 2011 with an increase of 13.4 percent if comparing to the same period last year, Tourism Minister announced at a seminar this week. “It is expected that about 2.8 million tourists will pour ss='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH– Cambodia has received 8.8 billion U.s. dollars of investments from China from 1994 to July 2011, making China the leading country in the investments in the country, according to the reports from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on Tuesday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s statistics and Tourist Information Department, Ministry of Tourism, reported arrivals increased 15.7% in september, the lowest growth rate so far for this year based on 242,747 visits during the month. The percentage increase for the nine-month period was pulled down from 24.5% at ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the OPEC Fund for International Development have signed an agreement to support trade in emerging Asian countries under the ADB’s Trade Finance Program, according to a news release. The risk distribution agreement will support a projected incremental trade flow between ss='cambodia-color'>...

Families in Koh Kong province will today file a complaint with the U.s. government against American sugar Refining (AsR) over farmland they claim they were violently evicted from to make way for two sugar plantations that supply the New York-based company. The 207 Koh Kong ss='cambodia-color'>...

Peering out over the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh from a Sixteenth-Storey private balcony at the new Bellevue ApartmentS, one could watch for hourS aS craneS Swing back in forth over all the new developmentS on the weSt Side of the water. “Phnom SS='cambodia-color'>...

Helping women find better employment opportunities is key to ensuring they feel able to report rape and sexual abuse, government and civil society representatives said yesterday. Although Cambodian courts are prosecuting an increasing number of cases involving violence against women, economic concerns stop many from reporting ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian manufacturers on Wednesday received training from Korean designers on how to make apparel in line with current fashion trends in the hopes of assisting them in penetrating the lucrative but difficult Korean market. The event was organized by the AsEAN-Korea Center—an intergovernmental organization that aims ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia ranks last in travel and tourism competitiveness among eight southeast Asian countries, according to a recently published study by the World Economic Forum. The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013, which excluded Laos and Myanmar, said Cambodia comes 106th out of 140 countries this year, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and South Korea Signed a memorandum of underStanding yeSterday, agreeing to work together to enSure worker protection. LaSt month,&nbSp; a Kampong Speu Shoe factory collapSe killed two workerS. The incident inSpired the MiniStry of Labour to implement a Health and Safety Network for workerS here SS='cambodia-color'>...

Despite facing a rampant graft problem that has seen Cambodians paying bribes far more often than their regional neighbors, they have growing faith in the government’s ability to fight it, a Transparency International survey has found. TI’s 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, which measures perceptions of corruption ss='cambodia-color'>...

When activists Mom sakin and sorn siyan took a stand against illegal logging in Kratie province last month, they were allegedly threatened with violence and lawsuits from officials. “Powerful people who wanted to intimidate us shot their guns into the air to prevent us from going ss='cambodia-color'>...

British sugar firm Tate & Lyle has denied knowing of the alleged abuses at two Cambodian plantations accused of illegally driving hundreds of families off their farms and says that the families have no right to ask the company for compensation, according to the firm’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rice farmers in Italy plan to block four major grain exchanges in the country this week over what they say is the European Union’s failure to keep Italian rice competitive against that of cheaper Asian rivals including Cambodia, which is given duty-free access to European ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen approved a request from Defense Minister Tea Banh last week to promote 29 lieutenant generals to the rank of four-star general, according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense. The promotions, which follow repeated calls from General Banh last month for ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deforestation and Cambodia’s strong economic growth have resulted in an increase in the price of charcoal, an energy source the poor are dependent on, charcoal vendors say. The price of charcoal in Phnom Penh had increased at least 200 riel ($0.05) a kilogram compared to 2012, charcoal ss='cambodia-color'>...

The president of the Bar Association of Cambodia has hit back at the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), which called for assurances that the Bar Association’s newly launched Code of Ethics, which was unveiled on Friday, would allow Cambodian lawyers to freely express themselves without ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Information on saturday lifted a ban on the broadcast of all Khmer-language foreign radio programs by FM stations during the month leading up to the July 28 national election amid swift and harsh rebuke from the U.s. and the broadcasters themselves. The ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...